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If there’s a program that knows point guards, it almost certainly has to be Kansas State.
The K-State women’s basketball team has had some pretty good ones, starting with current assistant coach Shalee Lehning, who is arguably the best distributor in Big 12 history

The scrimmages are done with, now it’s time to get the real games going.
Of course, Kansas State men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber is glad this Friday’s game against Pittsburg State is just an exhibition.
When the Wildcats take the Bramlage Coliseum

City commissioners are not happy with how the Convention and Visitors Bureau spent some money generated by the transient guest tax.
During Tuesday night’s work session, Mayor John Matta directed the staff to come up with some alternatives to the current way the CVB

Local |Kansas State University |Government, Politics |
October 30, 2013

State legislators sought answers Tuesday related to K-State’s budget, highlighting an increased focus on higher education.
Members of the House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means committees visited the campus as a part of their biennial bus tour.
The tour to various Kansas universities

Political affiliation is thicker than blood.
Milton Wolf, a Tea Party candidate running against U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., in the 2014 primary, ripped into President Barack Obama during a Tuesday appearance at K-State.
It has been widely publicized that the super-conservative Wolf is Obama’

Tuesday’s playoff-opening matchup against the Wichita South Titans had all the makings of a trap game for the Manhattan High boys’ soccer team.
With a matchup against Washburn Rural looming at 6 p.m. on Thursday, the Indians first needed to take care of business

Manhattan High senior forwards Eric Gray and Peter Maier have been playing the same position, on the same teams, for the last six years.
Not surprisingly, when one of the two isn’t out on the soccer pitch, it changes the way the other plays

When Joe Schartz came to Manhattan in 2004, he knew what he was getting into.
Hired to round out the varsity staff after serving as offensive coordinator in Dodge City for three seasons, the current Manhattan High football coach had seen first-hand how good the Indians

Although more money is being spent this year on adult Halloween costumes than on children’s costumes — $1,22 billion to $1,02 billion — trick-or-treating remains a children’s activity. We hope that never changes.
We also hope that adults again do their part to make sure the

It doesn’t seem from a drive around town that area residents have cut back on Halloween spending. If anything, there are more decorations, from inflatable jack-o-lanterns, ghosts and other creatures to spiders and webbing, zombies and tombstones in people’s yards.
How many parties